It is with great pleasure that we present this conference report on The making of the Humanities XI, written by Klara Müller and Christian Hoekema.
Conference Report: “Deconstruct or sing our own songs?”
With the eleventh edition in the conference series having taken place in October, the field of the history of the humanities can no longer be called a newcomer. Since the first edition was held in Amsterdam in 2008 – which focused on comparative studies between humanities disciplines – the conferences have since steered toward a broader ambition of developing more consolidated and empirically-oriented research on the history of the humanities. To this extent, after this first on-site conference since the pandemic, the field can be said to increasingly mature into a fully-fledged integrative platform.
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